Movie review thread...
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Equilibrium
Christian Bale enforces the laws in a dystopian, post-WW-3 future.
Feelings and emotion have been identified as the causes of conflict, so have been banned. People suppress their feelings with Prozium and get about their day with minimal ... anything. Art of any kind is banned as it elicits emotional responses.
Anyway, the first half of the film is about as dry as that description, but it picked up nicely toward the second stanza.
3.5 out of 5 dead Sean Beans
That's one of those "saw it years ago but wouldn't mind doing so again" type of movies. I always like a good post apocalyptic flick that imagines how life might be like......doesn't it lose all credibility by having him waste multiple enemies single handedly without a scratch or am I thinking of something else ?
Bale and Beans characters were taught some sort of martial art involving using fully automatic pistols . Only the clerics knew it , its a bit easier to believe than a man dressed as giant Lycra clad bat prancing around a city at night and no one ever figuring out his true identity
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Legend of Tarzan - not a great movie, but not a rubbish one either, decent watch, would give it 3 crazed apes out of 5 bad guys, but because it had Margot Robbie, it gets 3.5 .
I too watched this the other night. It was terrible. Not even Margot Robbie could have saved it ... maybe her tits could have but sadly we'll never know. Sadly this was a movie I should have stopped at about the 20 to 30 minute mark but I stupidly didn't and then had to watch it until the end. All the parts should have been good - Robbie, Waltz, the dude from True Blood (but really he's the dude from Generation Kill), Sam l Jackson, but the script was just so shit and almost racist (yeah, I'll take the risk of one of the OWM calling me a SJW ;)).
-5 not seeing Margot Robbie's boobies out of 5 seeing Margot Robbie's boobies.
Luckily, I didn't make the same mistake later in the week, there was a poor selection of movies on Virgin so I thought I'd watch Point Break - I'm going to give it shit so I may as well watch it so I know why I was giving it shit. I got 20 minutes in, I saw some motorbiking, some surfing and Teresa Palmer in a bikini. This movie was so good damn awful that I turned it off at the scene of her in the bikini. -1 Utahs out of 5 Pappas'.
So after turning that off I decided to watch Deadpool for a second watch, and it was awesome again.
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@Nepia haha I agree wholeheartedly on PB!!
I didnt mind Tarzan, although TBF, I had just spent 4 hours in a hospital (for a 2nd day) bed with a needle in my arm and a whole heap of anaesthetic in my face with minimal sleep....I wont watch it again to see if I think any diifferent, but stand by my initial opinion
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia haha I agree wholeheartedly on PB!!
I didnt mind Tarzan, although TBF, I had just spent 4 hours in a hospital (for a 2nd day) bed with a needle in my arm and a whole heap of anaesthetic in my face with minimal sleep....I wont watch it again to see if I think any diifferent, but stand by my initial opinion
Hahaha, so lucky - if only I had some anaesthetic when I watched it.
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Watched "Sicario" last night. Fucking bleak that movie.
Not your average crime procedural is it? Blurred lines, lack of accountability, hints of sanction from higher up (without wanting to know details) it paints a murky picture. And that makes it. No emotional wrap up, no happy ending, just acceptance.
During the movie i found myself fucking annoyed by Emily Blunt's character. As i sat there thinking "don't be such a fucking stick in the mud, let the men get results" i realised how much the action movies of my childhood have warped my perception of movie characters. Blunt was essentially the "stupid chief" (cheers Ruthless) wanting shit done by the book, while the others were the formerly main characters, just doing what they need to in order to get the bad guy. And it was easy for me to slip in to the habit of rooting for them. It was only on reflection that i thought about how fucked up what they were doing must be to someone in law enforcement, or who believes in what they are doing.
Good movie, i enjoyed it. It looks amazing, the score is fucking great (that bass/cello leading up to every action sequence was cool as fuck), and it stayed true to itself.
4 dead mexicans out of 5 morally ambiguous company men
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
This was on Google Play for 99c so I thought it'd be a laugh. Pretty much what I expected after reading the book synopsis - which the film departed from in a lot of ways.
Anyway, bit of weaving the the fantasy/horror element into written truth as history knows it. Good fun.
3 silver axes out of 5.
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"The Counselor"
What a great cast......what a fucken confusing pointless mess of a movie. Michael Fassbender ( the counselor who's name we never know ) gets into some illegal drug shit on the side with Javier Bardem ( complete with ubiquitous stupid hairdo ), both are, respectively, banging Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz ( who look sexy as all hell ) and Brad Pitt is in the mix as a cool Texan dude. Cue Fassbender taking risks and looking all blank and surprised when his life predictably turns to shit and drug lords come after him.
I think the moral message is something along the lines of greed being bad.
El Paso looks like a bit of a hole to live in too.
2 enchiladas out of 5 tequilas.
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@MN5 i seem to remember a great trailer, but it got absolutely panned when it came out?
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 i seem to remember a great trailer, but it got absolutely panned when it came out?
Had all the ingredients to be a fucken classic, that it was not. Not by a long shot.
Did I mention Cameron Diaz looked hot as fuck though ?
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 i seem to remember a great trailer, but it got absolutely panned when it came out?
It was astonishingly bad. I recommend reading my great review.
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@Tim sure, link it, because you can bet I'm not trawling through this thousand page thread looking for it
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Watched Where The Wild Things Are with the boy today. Did not really enjoy it, and neither did he. Very slow, kind of pointless/weird, with no real "end" to the conflict between the Monsters. Not my cup of tea.
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@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 i seem to remember a great trailer, but it got absolutely panned when it came out?
It was astonishingly bad. I recommend reading my great review.
Did you like it when Cameron Diaz fucked Javier Bardems car ? that was a definite highlight.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Tim sure, link it, because you can bet I'm not trawling through this thousand page thread looking for it
Sadly, it's probably too old to have made the transition to the new site.
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@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Master & Commander was fun. Gladiator was very so-so, which is about the best you can say for late career Ridley Scott (have any of you fluffybunnies seen The Counselor? That was easily the most profoundly and unwittingly awful movie of the past decade).
Big Russ was fucking great in the Insider and Romper Stomper. I suspect they gave him the oscar as a corrective to over looking his performance in the Insider.
It was probably the best performance as a scientist I've seen, and as someone who is mostly a cancer researcher now, it's one of the few genuinely inspirering performances I've seen.this was a pretty succinct review from 3 years ago....
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Master & Commander was fun. Gladiator was very so-so, which is about the best you can say for late career Ridley Scott (have any of you fluffybunnies seen The Counselor? That was easily the most profoundly and unwittingly awful movie of the past decade).
Big Russ was fucking great in the Insider and Romper Stomper. I suspect they gave him the oscar as a corrective to over looking his performance in the Insider.
It was probably the best performance as a scientist I've seen, and as someone who is mostly a cancer researcher now, it's one of the few genuinely inspirering performances I've seen.this was a pretty succinct review from 3 years ago....
Holy shit. Ebert would turn in his grave reading such a brief review. Don't talk yourself up so much next time @Tim
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